Thursday, 30 October 2014

As many as 20 to 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees -- some of whom were released within the last three years -- are suspected by intelligence and Defense officials of having joined forces with the Islamic State and other militant groups inside Syria, Fox News has learned.

Wednesday, 29 October 2014

One hesitates to call any Obambi statement the most illogical thing he’s ever said, but a remark yesterday on Ebola may qualify:

Q: Are you concerned, sir, that there might be some confusion between the quarantine rules used by the military and used by health care workers and by some states?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the military is a different situation, obviously, because they are, first of all, not treating patients. Second of all, they are not there voluntarily, it’s part of their mission that's been assigned to them by their commanders and ultimately by me, the Commander-in-Chief. So we don't expect to have similar rules for our military as we do for civilians. They are already, by definition, if they're in the military, under more circumscribed conditions.

The question was about why members of the military faced stricter quarantine rules. The fact that they aren’t treating patients would be an argument for looser quarantine rules. More critically, the voluntary or involuntary nature of their service has nothing to do with the capacity of Ebola workers to infect people. There is no constitutional right to fatally infect Americans that civilians enjoy but which service members have surrendered.

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

So I’m watching the football game last night featuring that team from Washington with the awful, no-good racist name, when there’s a promo for ABC’s Halloween-themed shows this week. It singled out one show, a new sitcom called black-ish. Which I only mention because the Halloween promotion has been branded a “Spooktacular” and you know ...

Remember when Obambi said he was a Muslim and had to be corrected by George Stephanopoulos? Now, in the wake of a study claiming that non-citizens may decide some 2014 elections, we have this:

Perhaps a bigger problem with utilizing CCES data to make claims about the non-citizen voting in the United States is that some respondents might have mistakenly misreported their citizenship status on this survey (e.g. response error). For, as Richman et al. state in their Electoral Studies article, “If most or all of the ‘non-citizens’ who indicated that they voted were in fact citizens who accidentally misstated their citizenship status, then the data would have nothing to contribute concerning the frequency of non-citizen voting.”

Okay, so these elections will be decided, not by non-citizens, but by individuals so deeply committed to the United States that they aren’t sure whether they’re citizens or not. Thanks for clearing that up.

Monday, 27 October 2014

Cash deposits of more than $10,000 must be reported to the government. Therefore any cash deposit of less than $10,000 is unquestionably being made to evade that requirement and must be seized by the government. (Via Drudge.)

Sunday, 26 October 2014

Drones, metal detectors, and a SWAT presence were just a few of the security measures taken Friday night at Summerville’s Homecoming game after threats of gang violence.

The enhanced security comes after Dorchester District 2 officials were informed of the threat of two rival gangs sorting out their differences at the game.

Fortunately, there was no criminal behavior at the game and the fans who showed up were appreciative of the precautions taken.

“It is very scary to come here tonight. It’s such a change, I’ve been coming here for so many years. Now we have armed guards. I couldn’t carry my purse, I forgot my phone. I’m a little out of my sorts,” said Ann Almers, a Summerville resident.

Officials decided to move the time of the game up by 90 minutes, opened the gates shortly after school ended for the day, and then posted armed officers all over the stadium.

An Internet search suggests Ms. Almers is 67 years old. Thank God the cops didn’t let her carry her purse into the stadium, she’s undoubtedly a straight-up hood. (Via Drudge.)

Appearing at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley on Friday, Hillary Clinton told the crowd gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel not to listen to anybody who says that “businesses create jobs.”

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Efforts are under way to decontaminate the apartment building of the Big Apple’s first Ebola patient.

Cops moved people back around 9:15 am as two officers with the Sanitation Department’s Environmental Police Unit arrived on the scene and entered the building through a side entrance.

They were later joined by several people in plain-clothes who exited out of a truck belonging to the Bio-Recovery Corporation — a full service crime scene cleanup and bio remediation company.

Keep in mind that this man visited restaurants and stores and traveled on subways and in taxis before becoming symptomatic. Only his good judgment brought him into quarantine as he became contagious. (That has now changed: New York and New Jersey will now quarantine returning Ebola medicos.)

And yet if this man had requested a handgun permit, he’d have been turned down. (Via Drudge.)